There are 6 new compiler recognised attributes: deprecated, experimental,
unstable, stable, frozen, locked (these levels are taken directly from
Node's "stability index"[1]). These indicate the stability of the
item to which they are attached; e.g. `#[deprecated] fn foo() { .. }`
says that `foo` is deprecated.
This comes with 3 lints for the first 3 levels (with matching names) that
will detect the use of items marked with them (the `unstable` lint
includes items with no stability attribute). The attributes can be given
a short text note that will be displayed by the lint. An example:
#[warn(unstable)]; // `allow` by default
#[deprecated="use `bar`"]
fn foo() { }
#[stable]
fn bar() { }
fn baz() { }
fn main() {
foo(); // "warning: use of deprecated item: use `bar`"
bar(); // all fine
baz(); // "warning: use of unmarked item"
}
The lints currently only check the "edges" of the AST: i.e. functions,
methods[2], structs and enum variants. Any stability attributes on modules,
enums, traits and impls are not checked.
[1]: http://nodejs.org/api/documentation.html
[2]: the method check is currently incorrect and doesn't work.
Whenever a generic function was encountered, only the top-level items were
recursed upon, even though the function could contain items inside blocks or
nested inside of other expressions. This fixes the existing code from traversing
just the top level items to using a Visitor to deeply recurse and find any items
which need to be translated.
This was uncovered when building code with --lib, because the encode_symbol
function would panic once it found that an item hadn't been translated.
Closes#8134
For #7083.
The metadata issue with the old version is now fixed. Ready for review.
This is also not the full solution to #7083, because this is not supported yet:
```
trait Foo : Send { }
impl <T: Send> Foo for T { }
fn foo<T: Foo>(val: T, chan: std::comm::Chan<T>) {
chan.send(val);
}
```
cc @nikomatsakis
* All globals marked as `pub` won't have the `internal` linkage type set
* All global references across crates are forced to use the address of the
global in the other crate via an external reference.
r? @graydon
Closes#8179
* All globals marked as `pub` won't have the `internal` linkage type set
* All global references across crates are forced to use the address of the
global in the other crate via an external reference.
Previously having optional lang_items caused an assertion failure at
compile-time, and then once that was fixed there was a segfault at runtime of
using a NULL crate-map (crates with no_std)
I removed the `static-method-test.rs` test because it was heavily based
on `BaseIter` and there are plenty of other more complex uses of static
methods anyway.
This fixes the large number of problems that prevented cross crate
methods from ever working. It also fixes a couple lingering bugs with
polymorphic default methods and cleans up some of the code paths.
Closes#4102. Closes#4103.
